Trump out, Biden in: What did the media learn?

A look at the US media’s inauguration coverage. Plus, Nigerian digital outlets that told the #EndSARS story.

The talk in Washington, DC is of a return to “normalcy”; we ask four American media analysts about the future of journalism in the Biden era.

President Trump: The 24 final hours in the White House

 

Washington has become a fortress city of roadblocks and barricades, and the FBI is vetting all 25,000 people providing security for President-elect Joe Biden's upcoming inauguration. Rehearsals of the ceremony are taking place in a city that now resembles a ghost town.

US: Tense calm ahead of Joe Biden's presidential inauguration | DW News

 

President Trump's supporters have begun their rallies across the country but there hasn't been reports of major violence. Security has been beefed up in state capitals ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday.

Why the US waits so long to swear in the new president

 

American law specifies that the US presidential election happens in early November. It also specifies that the winner of that election isn’t actually sworn in until January 20th. That leaves about two and a half months in between, where, in situations where the incumbent has been voted out, the winner of the election still isn’t president. This is the “transition” period, during which the old administration trades places with the new one.

Triumph Attends Trump’s Inauguration - CONAN on TBS

And he couldn’t say “President Trump” without vomiting.

Scotland's Sunday Herald Expertly Trolls Donald Trump

The Scottish Sunday Herald has provided one of the most spot on descriptions of what we are going through … in a satirical trolling TV preview: “President Trump: The Inauguration”.

Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far

Delusional Donald Trump Believes Elton John WIll Play At His Inauguration

During an interview on the BBC's Hardtalk a representative of Donald Trump's claimed that Sir Elton John would perform at the inauguration of Donald Trump.  Sir Elton John supported Hillary Clinton and has stated he won't be performing for the King Cheeto Jesus.

  Sir Elton John will not perform at Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, a spokeswoman for the singer has said.

Anthony Scaramucci, a member of Mr Trump's transition team, had told BBC HARDtalk that Sir Elton would perform in Washington DC in January.

"Elton John is going to be doing our concert on the mall for the inauguration," Mr Scaramucci said.

But this was "categorically denied" by Sir Elton's representative in London.

"There is no truth in this at all," she told BBC News.

Donald Trump and his sycophants are so damn delusional that they'll convince themselves that what is utterly false is completely true.  During the campaign he used without authorization from Elton John Rocket Man and Tiny Dancer at various campaign events.